Angela De Silva - Accredited Specialist Immigration Lawyer

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LLB (Honours) l BA

Angela graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (honors) and Bachelor of Arts (Psychology & Anthropology) and started out her career at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions with dreams of being a criminal prosecutor. During completion of her legal supervision, Angela worked at a boutique law firm where she worked on immigration cases for the first time and the fell in love with this area of the law. She has never looked back.

Angela has worked for global firms and specializes in the provision of immigration advice, strategy and compliance for corporate clients. Managing the visa populations for these clients goes beyond the procurement of a visa and requires forethought on the intersections of immigration law with the commercial realities of the client. Her experience in this space involves obtaining bulk subclass 400 and subclass 482 visas within short timeframes to meet client project demands, auditing visa programs to identify weaknesses/areas of risk, visa strategies for accompanying family members and assistance with advice and action in response to Departmental monitoring requests for sponsors.

During her almost 7 years with a top 4 professional services firm, Angela mentored and trained graduates through the administration of the graduate program and presented externally to other Immigration Lawyers and Registered Migration Agents. Her strong technical knowledge was leveraged with her assisting in authoring the firm's client newsflashes and responses to Government via Senate Committee submissions on key immigration issues and proposed legislative changes.

Everyone's immigration journey is a personal one and Angela is able to build strong relationships with her clients to achieve their ultimate migration goals. Her ability to connect with people from all walks of life was crucial to her selection to be seconded to the Netherlands with her previous firm to assist with onboarding and establishing the visa program for a global client operating in more than 30 countries.

In 2020, Angela undertook and passed the Specialist Accreditation examination with the NSW Law Society.

Languages: fluent in English.